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GAR TRUCK. No. 331,994. Patented Dec. 8, 1885.

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CHARLES L. MOREHOUSE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CAR-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 331,994, dated December 8, 1885. Application filed May 8,1885. Serial No.164,830. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. MORE- HOUSE, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a new and Improved Anti- Friction and Curve Truck for Railway-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved car-truck in which the friction is reduced to a minimum,.and which is so constructed that the wheels will not slip or grind at curves.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is alongitudinal sectional elevation of my improved car-truck on the linex a, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a block for holding the bottom axle in place. Fig. 4is a perspective view of one of the boxes of the upper axle.

The truck is constructed with the side bars, A, the end bars, B, and cross-bars B. On the bottom edges of the side bars, A, the downwardlyprojecting lugs O are formed, each provided with a recess, D, for receiving a sliding journal-box, E, having an upwardly-projecting stem, F, surrounded by a cushionspring, G. Blocks or filling pieces H are placed on the lower ends of the recesses D, below the j ournal-boxes, and are held in place by screws. Each journal-box has a neck, J, projecting from the outer surface, and the necks of the adjacent j ournal-boxes are united by link-bars K, having eyes L, through which the said necks can be passed, the said linkbars being on the outside of the side bars, A. In the opposite boxes E the shafts M are journaled, on the outer ends of which the smooth-rimmed wheels N are rigidly mounted outside of the side bars. The wheels N run on journal ends 0 of axles O, journaled in lugs P, projecting downward and from the side bars, A, between the lugs O. The lugs 1? have recesses for receiving the axles, and below the axles blocks Q are held in the lugs by screws passed through the flanges Q of the blocks. Flanged car-wheels R, of the usual construction, are mounted on the axles O at the inner sides of the side bars, A.

The axles O are formed of two sections, each provided at the inner end with a head, S, mounted to turn in a j ournal-box, T, formed of two sections, held together by nuts U, screwed on the ends. The two sections of each axle O and the wheels on the sections can turn independently, which is of great importance 111 running on curves.

If desired, the axles M may be constructed in the same manner.

Instead of forming the lugs C I? on the side pieces, pedestals may be secured on the side, as in trucks of the usual construction. The link-bars K prevent spreading of the axles M.

The wheels R run on the rails \V, and the wheels N are revolved by the axle O, and the pressure of the car is transmitted to the axle 0 through the wheels N, whereby the friction is reduced materially.

The box T may have an oilhole.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination,with a car-truck frame, of a pair of axles journaled in boxes on the frame, bars uniting the boxes of the pair of axles at each side of the frame, a wheel on each end of each axle of each pair, an additional axle, on which the wheels of the abovementioned axles rest, and flanged wheels on the said additional axle, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination,with a car-truck frame, of the boxes E, having necks J the link-bars K, having eyes through which the necks J can be passed, the axles M, journaled in the boxes E, the wheels N on the axles M, the axle O, on which the wheels N rest, and the wheels R on the axle O, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with a car-truck frame having the lugs O P or pedestals on its side on the inner ends, the box '1, and the nuts U, bars, of the boxes E, the blocks H Q, the axles screwed on the endsof the same, substantially M O, and the wheels N R on the same, subas herein shown and described.

stantially as herein shown and described. CHARLES L. MOREHOUSE- 4. The combination,with a car-truck frame, Witnesses: of the axles M, the wheels N, the axles O, OSCAR F. GUNZ,

formed of two sections, each having heads S s C. SEDGWIGK. 

